Mary Carole McCauley

Writer

Mary Carole McCauley joined The Sun in 2000 and is an arts reporter specializing in books and visual arts. Previously, she was The Sun’s theater critic and an assistant arts editor. A native Chicagoan, she graduated from the University of Chicago and completed a fellowship for arts journalists at Northwestern University. Her writing has been recognized with a National Headliner Award and three times by the Society for Features Journalism.

Recent Articles

Two of Baltimore’s hottest contemporary artists, Amy Sherald and Stephen Towns, will have a public conversation about their work next week. The pair, who have enjoyed a recent string of high-profile successes, will discuss how they create their quite different portraits at 7 p.m. March 21 at the...

Stitch by stitch, the local artist Stephen Towns has sewn his mother and five sisters into the very fabric of the 10 luminous quilts on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art. These fierce, smart, loyal and devoted women helped make Towns the man and artist he is today, and they’re represented...

Artists Christopher Winslow and Charlie Macsherry covered the walls of the Good Shepherd residential treatment center with elaborate murals designed to give the troubled youth who lived there a jolt of optimism. Now that the center is closed, Winslow bemoans that the art is going to waste.

A “bomb cyclone” just packed a wallop up and down the East Coast, causing extensive damage to local trees. An arborist says that the Baltimore area’s evergreens are particularly at risk. “The amount of damage we’re seeing is almost up there with the derecho,” said Kevin Mullinary, district manager...

SPOILER ALERT — If you haven’t yet seen “Black Panther” and want to be surprised as the story unfolds, stop reading right now. We aren’t kidding. Casey Haughin never expected to find herself rooting for the bad guy. But when Erik Killmonger, the villain in the “Black Panther” movie, slaughters...

Not quite four months ago, Betsy Boyd spent 41 percent of her annual salary on a kidney transplant for her ailing 17-year-old cat, Stanley. As a condition of the $19,000 surgery, she also adopted the kidney donor, a 2-year-old tabby named Jay, bringing the total number of felines in her household...

Chances are that you’ve visited your share of art galleries and historical societies and dutifully stocked up on officially designated cultural treasures. But which gives you a better feel for the real George Washington — the iconic oil painting of the dignified man hanging in the National Portrait...

The Peabody Conservatory has hired three musicians with Baltimore ties to join the jazz department faculty next school year — the most recent step in administrators’ plan to remake the program from top to bottom. The appointments of bassist Kristopher Funn, saxophonist Tim Green, and vibraphone...